sprung – em

It seems there is somthing in the air... something has sprung that isn't spring. When people say they do a bit of 'Spring cleaning' you know tidying up things that have collected dust over winter or just refreshing their space at home, work etc. 

Lately lots of our lovely clients have been 'spring cleaning' themselves or their business. They come to us to for their  'cleaning services' whether it be freshening up a dated logo, or getting a rad website or blog made some postcards to send around or even a nice little bizo card – there are plenty of things that can freshen up the look of your business. 

And most of the time people notice the change and the effort you have put in and it might even create a wave of craziness and suddenly you just feel better about your business and have a whole new outlook, if anything you have more hits on your blog?

Anyway here is a dooze of a logo we recently did for an amazing photogapher by the name of Kerin Burford.

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logo development and logo design as well as graphic design by dpm. circle is a sydney band or rather an australian band based in enmore and enmore audio is an awesome recording studio.  

and thennnnnn...

Ampersands are cool. 

It has been cool for quite some time –  check this evolution of the ampersand below.

It dates way back to friggen Roman times. I think it is safe to say the little bugger is the hardest thing to learn how to draw back in primary school days. No need to draw it kiddies –  there are awesome typefaces with such beautiful ampersands. They can really stand out and compliment type or images. I find that when you have more to say, using '&' can really help to re-inforce the point. Our new Ad for Art Almanac mag sets off what I am babbling on about here. We design AND & AND & AND  print! See, without the beautiful Ampersand some people would go oh DPM a graphic DESIGN agency cool.... but the little guy there really pushes the fact that we are such a multidisciplinary place we also PRINT!  Too easy. We now have placed two ideas in peoples head with the help of our friend  &.

Plus here is something spesh when they have that extra quirkiness about them, maybe a cursive extension or a really thin and subtle outline or even an awesome letterpressed ampersand. ohh yeh!

There is even a magazine named after it. check

 

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logo development and logo design as well as graphic design by dpm. circle is a sydney band or rather an australian band based in enmore and enmore audio is an awesome recording studio.  

sunny side up - Em

I have noticed this week there has been a lot of design work in the air,  E - invites, Website design - basically lots of things that I get to see on screen but never printed and being able to hold, look and feel the design in its true life form!

Start printing people !!! 

Sure facebook invites are easy, hassle-free and frankly LAZY

IMAGINE giving someone a printed invite, one they can get in the mail, tear open the envelope and whack it on the fridge under a daggy big banana magnet from their summer holiday 10 years ago - now we're talking. Every time they open that fridge to refresh themselves they will first take a glance at the coolest invite stuck on the door.

So take a step back from the digital world next week - and explore the possibilities of paper and it might just change your life (seriously)

Send me something lovely (or we can create something lovely for you) to get printed so I can hold it in my hands (and maybe stick it under my cops are tops fridge magnet) and share it around with everyone.

One thing that I was able to get my hands on this week was a new menu for scrambled cafe. It went from being un-coated and lovely to being shiny and lovelier! And now tons more people can put their sticky little hands all over it! 

( poached with smoked salmon and spinach please mmmm)

Words and Images Copyright © DPM Creative Group  http://www.dpm.net.au/

logo development and logo design as well as graphic design by dpm. circle is a sydney band or rather an australian band based in enmore and enmore audio is an awesome recording studio.